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Theater Review: CAMELTON (Stephen Cole’s One-Man Show About One Man’s Wild Ride)
THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST Stephen Cole’s backstage Qatar saga is stranger than fiction—and just as entertaining In the story category of “truth is stranger than fiction,” and well worthy of inclusion in an edition of Ripley’s Believe It or Not, comes the mind-boggling saga of how…
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Theater Review: AN ARK (The Shed)
THEATRE THROUGH GOGGLES A 47-minute VR encounter turns a gallery into the closest “front row” imaginable. How would you like to attend a play starring Ian McKellen—and be seated front row center? Better yet, what if Sir Ian (along with Golda Rosheuvel, Arinzé Kene, and Rosie Sheehy) played directly to you, making sustained eye contact…
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Music Review: THE LOVESTRUCK BALLADEERS (Birdland Theater)
A POEM IN PRAISE OF THE LOVESTRUCK BALLADEERS There’s a super group that gets plenty of cheers:They’re called The Lovestruck Balladeers.They had a Birdland three-night gig.And the repertoire was pretty darn big.They play vintage music – originals, too.One cute highlight’s a song that’s called “Looking for You.”And this delight just happens to beThe title tune…
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Theatre Review: GOING BACHARACH: THE SONGS OF AN ICON (Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater)
A REMARKABLY RESPLENDENT & RADIANT REVUE If you’re wandering around Manhattan, just “Wishin’ and Hopin’” for a magnificent musical revue with some “Magic Moments,” don’t “Walk On By” the building at 10 West 64th Street. The show there is the “Best That You Can Do,” so “Make It Easy on Yourself” and see the super-satisfying…
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Concert | Theater Review: OKLAHOMA! IN CONCERT (Carnegie Hall)
OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL EVENIN’! RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN RIDE AGAIN AT CARNEGIE HALL With a full cast, full dialogue, and a glorious orchestra, this Oklahoma! concert leans into the classic’s warmth— exclamation point included. Ah, the classic musical Oklahoma! It begins with the offstage cowboy character named Curly singing about nature—“There’s a bright golden haze…
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Theatre Review: FINDING DOROTHY PARKER (Laurie Beechman Theatre)
SARCASM ON STEROIDS To say that Dorothy Parker had a way with words would be the understatement of the century—and she spanned two of them, being born in the last decade of the 1800s and hanging on until 1967. Even her own death was subject to one more pithy punchline. In a story with herself…
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Off-Broadway Review: H.M.S. PINAFORE (New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players)
SAILORS, SATIRE, AND SOPRANOS New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players keep H.M.S. Pinafore proudly afloat—smart, tuneful, and gloriously old-school. Producing a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta takes courage, talent, and resources. Yet every year the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players put on several productions, complete with a gorgeous single set, period costumes, and a live…
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Cabaret Review: BOOM! 15TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT (Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway at 54 Below)
BOOM! IS A BLAST! Separately, each is terrific. Together, the two are sublime. When singing sisters Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway combine their voices and sensibilities—echoing each other’s lines, with glorious harmonies weaving and soaring through songs—it’s one of the best things you can do for your ears. At 54 Below, through Saturday, January…
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Cabaret Theater Review: FINDING DOROTHY PARKER (Laurie Beechman Theatre)
WIT, WOUNDS, AND A GREAT SET OF PODIUMS A smart, lively cabaret revue that reminds us Parker was more than just a quote machine. Those of us who remember Dorothy Parker think of a sharp-witted, often biting writer and wise observer of human nature. Her one-liners, such as “Men seldom make passes at girls who…
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Off-Broadway Review: THE DISAPPEAR (Minetta Lane Theatre)
MARRIAGE, MOVIES & MISERIES AT MINETTA LANE Marriage may be like a garden — has to be consistently and attentively nurtured and cared for or it will wither instead of bloom and grow — but for Ben and Mira in The Disappear, nobody’s doing much watering, making this particular union look parched, prickly, and perilously…
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Broadway Review: BUG (Manhattan Theatre Club)
There could have been a better time to bring back Bug, Tracy Letts’s disturbing drama about paranoia and its devastating consequences. We have enough to be paranoid about these days, don’t you think? Nevertheless, Manhattan Theatre Club has revived Letts’s 1996 psychological thriller—this is the 2020 production direct from Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago—starring Letts’s…
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Audition Announcement: BEACHES, A NEW MUSICAL (Are You a Little Cee-Cee?)
VIRTUAL CASTING SEARCH LAUNCHED FOR BROADWAY’S BEACHES Beaches, A New Musical has launched a virtual casting search titled “Are You a Little Cee Cee?”, inviting young performers to audition for the role of Little Cee Cee, the childhood version of one of the story’s two iconic best friends. Video submissions are being accepted now through…
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Cabaret Review: DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER & BILL CHARLAP (Birdland)
A PLEASING PAIR Standards stretched, teased, and joyfully reimagined The song “’S Wonderful” will be a century old next year, so it’s not a new thing to wonder if its titular positive adjective might describe the rendition du jour and the full live set or recording in which it has appeared. In the case of…
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Theater Commentary: WOMEN, POWER, AND PROGRESS (Ragtime and Liberation on Broadway)
SISTERHOOD, INTERRUPTED Ragtime, Liberation, and the unfinished work of women’s equality Even when we know better, most of us seem to think that history proceeds in a linear manner. Life in the present, while far from perfect, is an improvement over life in the past, isn’t it? Women as a whole today enjoy expanded educational…
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Opera Review: AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (The Met and Lincoln Center Theater at Mitzi E. Newhouse)
A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, UP CLOSE AND BREATH-BY-BREATH Opera this intimate feels less like a performance and more like a shared act of wonder This holiday season, multi-Grammy Award winner and Olivier Award–winning star Joyce DiDonato made opera feel truly intimate—an entirely new experience for me. She brought her formidable talent to a brand-new production of…
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Off-Broadway Review: BASIL TWIST’S PUPPET PARTY (HERE Arts’ Dorothy B. Williams Theatre)
One of the great pleasures of New York City is that it’s a place where it feels perfectly normal to hear someone say, “I’m headed to SoHo to see an adult Christmas puppet show,” and mean it sincerely. Now in its 26th year, Basil Twist’s Puppet Parlor, playing at HERE Arts Center, has become exactly…
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Off-Broadway Review: ANNA CHRISTIE (St. Ann’s Warehouse)
ANNA CHRISTIE RIDES THE TIDE AGAIN An early O’Neill, boldly staged, will sweep you into a fog-shrouded world of fate, forgiveness, and hard-won grace. “A rich and salty play,” wrote one critic of Anna Christie when it premiered in New York in 1921. “Written with abundant imagination,” claimed another. Yet a third critic called the…
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Cabaret Review: HARLEM HOLIDAYS (Renée Elise Goldsberry for The Classical Theatre of Harlem)
AN INTIMATE HOLIDAY CONCERT Renée Elise Goldsberry does everything joyfully right; And yes, it helps keep The Classical Theatre of Harlem thriving Founded in 1999, The Classical Theatre of Harlem produces two to three shows a year and also conducts extensive educational programs. Since Ty Jones took over as Producing Artistic Director in 2009, the…
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Concert Review: A PLACE CALLED HOME (NY Pops with Megan Hilty and Essential Voices USA)
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE A PLACE CALLED HOME A late-season course correction that feels like a homecoming Christmastime is filled with traditions. And one of the best ones in New York City is the New York Pops Christmas Concert, when the stage is bathed in rosy light, a wreath hangs from overhead, and the hall…
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Off-Broadway Review: TARTUFFE (New York Theatre Workshop)
MORAL ROT MASQUERADING AS VIRTUE Broderick underplays the zealot Tartuffe in Lucas Hnath’s contemporary take, but the cast keeps the comedy crackling The art of looking virtuous while being utterly fake is a talent as old as theater itself, and Molière’s Tartuffe remains the most iconic theatrical example. Having seen André De Shields’s sly, invigorating version…
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